SSRS to Power BI migration
Keep the reports people use, in the format they expect. Rebuild the ones that should be interactive, and switch off the rest, at a fixed price agreed before work starts.
SSRS has run reliable reports for years. The question now is less whether to move and more when, and how to avoid moving reports nobody reads.
From SQL Server 2025, Microsoft puts on-premises reporting under Power BI Report Server. SSRS 2022 is the last version and gets security updates until January 2033.
The report server, its database, certificates and Windows updates all need someone’s time, and that person is often the only one who knows how it works.
Hundreds of reports built over the years, many no longer opened, with logic hidden in queries that people are afraid to touch.
SSRS is good at fixed layouts. People who want to filter, drill down and compare end up exporting to Excel and starting again.
Reports that only work on the office network or over a VPN are hard to share with people working from home, on the road or at another site.
Many teams already use Power BI for dashboards and SSRS for invoices and statements, with two sets of licences, skills and numbers.
Not every report should move the same way. We decide report by report with the people who use them.
Fixed-format reports such as invoices, statements, packing lists and board packs move to Power BI as paginated reports. They look and print the same, and run in the browser or in Teams.
Reports people use to look for answers become Power BI reports with filters, drill-down and comparisons, built on one data model so every page agrees.
Reports nobody has opened in the last year are listed for you to confirm, then switched off rather than migrated.
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We read the report server catalogue and execution log to list every report, its data sources, its subscriptions and how often it is actually run.
Each report is marked keep, rebuild or retire with you, so you only pay to move what people use. You get a fixed price for the migration before work starts.
Paginated reports are published to Power BI with Microsoft’s migration tools and checked page by page. Interactive reports are built on a shared data model.
Subscriptions and email schedules are set up again, both versions run side by side until the numbers match, and then the old server is switched off.
Reports can keep reading your on-premises SQL Server through the Power BI gateway, so the migration does not have to wait for a data warehouse project.
Every migrated report is compared with its SSRS original on the same dates before anyone relies on it, and any difference is explained.
Finance reports moved from a legacy BI tool to Power BI, with the statement formats and adjustments the board relies on kept exactly as they were.
Financial services
Profit and loss, balance sheet, KPI and reconciliation reporting moved from a legacy BI tool to Power BI on a proper data model, with two reporting bases and manual-adjustment capability preserved.
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Send us the list of reports on your server.
We will tell you which are still used, which can move as they are, and what the migration would cost.
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